THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for March 2007

  • Jessica Blank has appeared in films including The Namesake, On the Road with Judas, and Undermind; her TV credits include Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Bronx Is Burning, and Rescue Me. She is co-author (with Erik Jensen) of the play The Exonerated and the book Living Justice. Her novel, Almost Home, is forthcoming from Hyperion.
  • John Domini (johndomini.com) has two novels coming, Earthquake I.D. this year, and A Tomb on the Periphery next.
  • Stephen Elliott is the author of six books, including the novel Happy Baby and the story collection My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up. Visit stephenelliott.com.
  • Sarah Fay is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in the Paris Review, Black Warrior Review, the Missouri Review,and BOMB. She is the recipient of the Avery Hopwood Award for Literature, as well as grants and fellowships from the Puffin Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. Her interview with the Spanish writer Javier Marías appears in the winter 2006 issue of the Paris Review.
  • Joshua Foer is the secretary of the Athanasius Kircher Society, whose proceedings can be found online at kirchersociety.org.
  • Rodrigo Fresán was born in Argentina and now lives in Barcelona. He is the author of seven books. Kensington Gardens is the first of his books to be translated into English.
  • Alan Gilbert is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Hillery Hugg lives in Texas, where she is finishing a collection of short stories. Her fiction has recently appeared in 3rd Bed.
  • Erik Jensen has appeared in more than twenty-five feature films; his TV credits include CSI, Law & Order, Love Monkey, and Alias. He is currently playing legendary Yankee Thurman Munson in the miniseries The Bronx Is Burning.
  • Idra Novey’s recent poems appear in the Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Barrow Street. Her chapbook of poems The Next Country won the 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and her translations of Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto received a PEN Translation Fund grant; the book is forthcoming from BOA Editions in fall 2007.
  • Jack Pendarvis has written two books of short stories, The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure and Your Body Is Changing, the latter of which will come out later this year.
  • Buzz Poole has written for publications such as the Village Voice and the San Francisco Chronicle. His book Madonna of the Toast is available from Mark Batty Publisher.
  • Davy Rothbart makes Found magazine, contributes to public radio’s This American Life, and wrote a book of stories called The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and High Times. If you’ve found something cool, please send it to him at his folks’ house—details at foundmagazine.com.
  • Craig Morgan Teicher’s poems are due out in the Yale Review and Boston Review. He just returned from a residence at the MacDowell Colony.
  • Anne Trubek is a professor at Oberlin College.
  • Lara Tupper’s debut novel, A Thousand and One Nights, has just been published by Harcourt. She is a member of the BMIFC (Barry Manilow International Fan Club). Her website is laratupper.com.
  • Malena Watrous is a writer living in San Francisco, where she is revising her first novel. She also teaches creative writing at Stanford University.
  • Lawrence Weschler, concurrently director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival, is the author of, among others, A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers and Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism).
  • Conveniently enough, Natasha Wimmer has translated novels by both Rodrigo Fresán (Kensington Gardens) and Roberto Bolaño (The Savage Detectives). She lives in New York City.

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